Most shops, commercial establishments, schools & colleges remain shut in Jafrabad. Local residents remain anxious & fearful of fresh attacks once media & cops leave their area.
Isha Khan Choudhury is the MP of Maldaha Dakshin constituency, a part of which is Murshidabad district’s Samserganj segment, one of the worst-hit areas by the violence.
Lok Sabha MP from Bengal Jyotirmay Singh Mahato has requested that the affected border districts be declared as 'disturbed areas' due to the alleged repeated communal attacks on Hindus.
The high court also instructed both the Mamata government and the Centre to submit detailed reports on the situation. The matter is scheduled for further hearing on 17 April.
A father and son were found with multiple stab wounds inside their home in Jafrabad in Samserganj area, where large-scale violence was reported Friday.
The district magistrate’s vehicle was attacked by a mob Monday after unrest over the weekend. Prohibitory orders extended in Murshidabad district as internet services remain suspended.
BJP MLA from Murshidabad Gouri Sankar Ghosh joins MPs Nishikant Dubey and Anant Maharaj in demanding bifurcation while the party has officially distanced itself from demand.
TMC’s Yusuf Pathan is pitted against 5-time Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in Murshidabad’s Berhampore. TMC is banking on Muslim identity and cricket fame to shift fortunes.
Rally likely to be held on 9 May, during Shah's planned 2-day visit to West Bengal. Congress & Left are still strong in district & wrested an assembly seat from TMC earlier this year
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
A watered down report on the riots that attempts to portray both communities as equal victims.
Everyone knows what transpired in Jafrabad.
Islamist radicals, under the patronage of Mamata Banerjee administration, were let loose on innocent Hindus. The Bengal government, especially the police force, worked in tandem with the Muslim fundamentalists and targeted Hindu homes and businesses.
Mr. Roy Barman, dyed-in-the-wool “secular” journalist that he is, obviously tries to paint a picture where both communities are equal victims. Also, he tries to convince us that the Muslim youth of the nearby localities are actually innocent.
A watered down report on the riots that attempts to portray both communities as equal victims.
Everyone knows what transpired in Jafrabad.
Islamist radicals, under the patronage of Mamata Banerjee administration, were let loose on innocent Hindus. The Bengal government, especially the police force, worked in tandem with the Muslim fundamentalists and targeted Hindu homes and businesses.
Mr. Roy Barman, dyed-in-the-wool “secular” journalist that he is, obviously tries to paint a picture where both communities are equal victims. Also, he tries to convince us that the Muslim youth of the nearby localities are actually innocent.